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| Last updated on June 30, 2008 |
Navos, formerly Highline West Seattle Mental Health offers a vast spectrum of innovative programs and services to improve the quality of life of low income children with serious emotional problems and adults with serious and persistent mental illness. We help our clients to achieve their greatest potential for wellness,recovery and resiliency.
Description:
Navos offers a full spectrum of mental health services to over 6,000 people each year, from crisis intervention to inpatient psychiatric care to highly specialized outpatient services for individuals and families at every life stage.
We provide residential housing and wrap around services to over two hundred people with mental illness who might otherwise be homeless or incarcerated as a result of their illness.
In addition, we partner with 17 other community mental health agencies in order to more effectively serve more children and adults throughout the county. Through this partnership, the Navos Consortium, we serve an additional 2,000 people each year - including about half the children served in King County.
History:
In 1963, community members banded together to create services in our community for those with mental illness. Highline Mental Health Association was incorporated in 1966 and counseling facilities opened in Burien and West Seattle. The first major federal staffing grant was awarded in 1974 and that same year, an inpatient treatment wing at West Seattle General Hospital was opened. Our first apartment complex was purchased in 1981 (Lakewood Apartments) and in 1984 we opened a 32 bed involuntary treatment facility on First Hill called Highline Evaluation and Treatment Facility. We partnered with Transitional Resources in 1990 and developed an innovative Intensive Residential treatment program at TRY House. We continued to purchase residential properties to house mentally ill individuals. We purchased the old West Seattle General Hospital in 1995 and opened West Seattle Psychiatric Hospital and Highline West Seattle Mental Health Center's outpatient care on the West Seattle campus in 1995.
In June 2008, the name of the organization was changed to Navos.
Contact people:
Office fax number: (206) 933-7014
Address:
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2600 SW Holden Street
Seattle, WA 98126
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Web Site: http://www.navos.org
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